James Rood Doolittle

James Rood Doolittle (3 January 1815-27 July 1897) was a US Senator from Wisconsin (D) from 4 March 1857 to 3 March 1869 (succeeding Henry Dodge and preceding Matthew H. Carpenter).

Biography
James Rood Doolittle was born in Hampton, New York in 1815, and he became a lawyer in 1837. He established a law practice in Rochester, and he moved to Racine, Wisconsin in 1851, serving as a judge from 1853 to 1856. Until the repeal of the Missouri Compromise in 1850, Doolittle was a Democrat, and he would switch to being a Republican during his time in the US Senate. In 1871, however, he returned to the Democrats to run for Governor, and he retired from politics after losing. He became a lawyer in Chicago, and he died in Edgewood, Rhode Island in 1897.